Four New Restaurants Open in Chicago This Week

Plus, there’s a Blackhawk pizza and some big local wins at the James Beard awards.

Openings

Open now: The reincarnation of Ceres’ Table (3124 N. Broadway, Lake View, 773-922-4020) has officially taken over the former home of Frog N Snail. We talked with partners Caryn Struif and Giuseppe Scurato about their plans for their big move from Uptown earlier this year.

Morsels

The James Beard Foundation handed out its Restaurant and Chef Awards on Monday, and a few Chicago names won big.

Jimmy Banos, Jr., of the Purple Pig shared the award for Rising Star Chef in the awards’ first-ever tie

Dave Beran won Best Chef: Great Lakes for Next

Lawton Stanley Architects won a restaurant design award for their work at Grace

Do you love the Blackhawks so much you could eat them? Now you can, kind of! Punky’s Pizza & Pasta (2600 S. Wallace St., Bridgeport, 312=842-2100) has added a Blackhawk logo-shaped pizza that’s heavy on the olives to their menu on playoff game days. It retails for $18.95.

As of noon today, the reservation list is open at Brandon Baltzley’s foray into Native-American-inspired eating based out of an Indiana farm, TMIP Restaurant (8734 W. 400 N., Michigan City, 219-814-4930). The restaurant is slated to open later this summer.